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As far as i know, two people have been cast. Get ready.
Megan Fox as April and some blond underwear model as Raphael.
What the hell Bay? Is there a specific reason you take your pants off and **** on our collective childhoods? What, did mom not allow you to watch those cartoons and read those comics when you were little?
I'm so not watching this.
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I'm assuming that the ninja turtle costume/CGI will make any blonde underwearness irrelevant...since actual ninja turtles are hard to come by. In terms of acting chops, Bay's scripts and plots don't exactly require Daniel Day Lewis. Megan Fox will do far more damage imo...cause she is just the worst of the worst.
Bay's intention to have the ninja turtles be aliens is far more worrying than any casting decisions.
Agreed. I don't think they should be aliens- that just silly.
Generally I enjoy remakes of childhood faves. But I have no plan on watching this one. Its not just a remake or an update- its a complete and total rewrite.
It'd be like the Transformers really being some kids backyard science project that spontaneously acquired sentience or the GI Joes being the bad guys and Cobra was just misunderstood.
Update, sure. But to rewrite what they are? Nah. They aren't TMNT anymore. they are TANT. it.. just doesn't work.
my 2 coppers, anyway.
-S
Bay has stated that the alien angle was from a script that was in development prior to him coming on board as producer and that his first act as producer was to get a rewrite. That said, the casting decisions are troubling.
I have also heard it will largely focus on the humans..like the Transformers did.
Because as everyone knows, you go to see Transformers to see Shia Leboeuf act.
I have also heard it will largely focus on the humans..like the Transformers did.
Because as everyone knows, you go to see Transformers to see Shia Leboeuf act.
Yes, and the tales of the turtles are mainly about April, Casey, and the Shredder.
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I'd like to humbly ask anyone who reads this to not watch this movie. This needs to stop. This whole thing where Michael Bay makes money needs to stop.
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Megan Fox does not bother me too much. What I worry about in regards to the Turtles is that they will look less like previous movie Turtles and more like the the Lizard from Spider-Man.
The link above has this line...
Now, the turtles in the original movies were kind of interchangeable, stuffed into those cheesy costumes, but this is supposed to be a more sophisticated Avatar-like approach. It should give the quartet better exposure, especially since Paramount views this as a franchise.
Well you guys do know that for Transformers, Megan Fox had to wash Michael Bay's car as part of the interview?? I guess his car needed a wash/ "turtle wax" again!! ;-0
the 80's movies were awful and i couldnt tell you who the real actors were in the animated tv shows/movies so the fact that we have real actors attached to this project cant be bad news. I hope the turtles look slightly different from one another other than the bandanas and they use these actors in CGI suits (Serkis used in LOTR) . In the next year+ we could have talking turtles, a talking rat,talking apes (planet of the apes) a talking racoon (guardians of the Galaxy), and a spandex wearing talking tree (guardians of the Galaxy).
... by Michael Bay. Seriously people, WTH?
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i couldnt tell you who the real actors were in the animated tv shows/movies so the fact that we have real actors attached to this project
You did NOT just say voice actors aren't real actors.
Them's FIGHTIN' WORDS, bat boy.
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The original ninja turtles looked NOTHING alike. Raphael had sais AND a red headband. Donatello had a bo staff AND a purple headband. I mean, that's like Amos and Andrew different!
Also, without Corey Feldman as the voice of Donatello...well those are some big shoes to fill for any would-be "real" actor. Such as Underwear boy or Megan Faux
The original comic was in black and white. I never had trouble telling the turtles apart from one another. They gave them different colors for the cartoon because they took what was at least a PG-13 comic and turned it into a Saturday morning cartoon with a Y-7 rating.
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the 80's movies were awful and i couldnt tell you who the real actors were in the animated tv shows/movies so the fact that we have real actors attached to this project cant be bad news. I hope the turtles look slightly different from one another other than the bandanas and they use these actors in CGI suits (Serkis used in LOTR) . In the next year+ we could have talking turtles, a talking rat,talking apes (planet of the apes) a talking racoon (guardians of the Galaxy), and a spandex wearing talking tree (guardians of the Galaxy).
What real actors for god's sake? Have you seen their resume's? One of them does not have a freaking Imdb page I vaguely remember one of them from some stupid movie, and to be honest, he sucked. Why couldn't they just take the guys who do voice acting on the nickelodeon incarnation? And use some stuntmen for motion capture?
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I still think the worst choice that has been made for this movie is Michael Bay.
Its better than a direct to SYFY movie.
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And being mauled by a black bear is better than being mauled by a polar bear. That still doesn't make it pleasant.
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I will never forget the lightning bolt of amazement that hit me the day I realized that Leonardo was Liquid Snake as well as about two dozen different people in Baldur's Gate.
Cam Clarke is, and always will be, the greatest Leonardo as far as I'm concerned. Once IMDB became a thing, I then went on to discover that he's been in pretty much EVERYTHING. =P
Didn't Gallagher (yes the watermelon smashing Gallagher) own the rights to the turtles? What does he think of all this?
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I will never forget the lightning bolt of amazement that hit me the day I realized that Leonardo was Liquid Snake as well as about two dozen different people in Baldur's Gate.
Cam Clarke is, and always will be, the greatest Leonardo as far as I'm concerned. Once IMDB became a thing, I then went on to discover that he's been in pretty much EVERYTHING. =P
And James Avery, Uncle Phil on Fresh Prince, was the voice of Shredder.
Mind blown!
Didn't Gallagher (yes the watermelon smashing Gallagher) own the rights to the turtles? What does he think of all this?
That's what he said, but I'm not sure how valid a source Gallagher is...even about himself.
Nickelodeon's owned the rights to TMNT for a few years, far as I know.
Yeah, well I'm gonna have a towel printed with a picture of Michael Bay's face, and wipe my butt with that until the movie comes out!
On second thought, no, that would be unhygienic, not to mention a complete overreaction. I'll just wait and see if anyone picks up the movie rights to the Preteen Dirty-Gene Kung-fu Kangaroos.
Yeah, well I'm gonna have a towel printed with a picture of Michael Bay's face, and wipe my butt with that until the movie comes out!
On second thought, no, that would be unhygienic, not to mention a complete overreaction. I'll just wait and see if anyone picks up the movie rights to the Preteen Dirty-Gene Kung-fu Kangaroos.
And people say I go overboard with my Whedon-hate...Never again will I take criticism of my own hate seriously. THIS is the definition of overboard, folks.
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If you'll notice, my post was facetious. Note the second line.
Bay's not a complete loser. The Nightmare on Elm Street remake was pretty good.
I keep trying to post an Onion article but it has "potty mouth" in the title and the filters keep messing up the link.
Google "Michael Bay to F**k up Thundercats"
Ha!
I got as far as seeing Megan Fox and had to end the video before rage happned.
Looks interesting....
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I really wish Michael Bay directed the Star Wars prequels.
If anyone could do worse than Lucas...that would be it...
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The trailer may be awesome and all but this will live on in my nightmares.
Also one has to wonder if "heroes are created" and someone purposefully decided to splice animals together to make superheroes why the f&$$ would they pick a turtle
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Also one has to wonder if "heroes are created" and someone purposefully decided to splice animals together to make superheroes why the f!*$ would they pick a turtle
I'll play devil's advocate.
- natural armor
- all of a turtle's senses are keen, especially their eyesight and sense of smell
- natural longevity
- being able to quickly retract one's head into an armored space makes for a decent defensive maneuver
Yeah, that's all I've got. Apparently they're not going for the accident storyline, which might mean they're phasing Splinter out entirely, which is a bad move to me.
Then again, their original origin story dovetailed off Daredevil's, which of course is a sticky IP situation.
And yeah, those eyes and the fingernails are just enough to drop them right into the uncanny valley and deposit them directly in the Creepville town square. Ugh.
Particularly with the mask off....
WTF the turtles...my god what have they done to you?!?!
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yeah; the 90's version was soooooo much better.
Much, actually.
Even Vanilla Ice's cold dead eyes aren't as creepy as that...thing wearing Mikey's headband/mask.
Nothing's managed to really touch the original comics. The cartoons are dumbed down and sanitized for kids, and the first movies were really stupid. This new one...well, I'll wait and see, but it'll still probably be a rental.
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I don't mind Michael Bay, I really only have one complaint about his movies: they're too long.
I enjoy brainless action movies with lots of explosions. The thing is that too much and too long gets boring. 90-100 minutes is the sweet spot of an action movie with little to no plot IMO. The acting doesn't need to be great, the plot can have holes, it just needs to be edited well and have an eye for pacing.
If they were tighter time-wise, it would seriously solve almost every other issue with his movies.